Parameterizing the Power Spectrum: Beyond the Truncated Taylor Expansion

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2005-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507224v2

JCAP0508:008,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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10.1088/1475-7516/2005/08/008

The power spectrum is traditionally parameterized by a truncated Taylor series: $ln P(k) = ln P_* + (n_*-1) ln(k/k_*) + {1/2} n'_* ln^2(k/k_*)$. It is reasonable to truncate the Taylor series if $|n'_* ln(k/k_*)| << |n_*-1|$, but it is not if $|n'_* ln(k/k_*)| \gtrsim |n_*-1|$. We argue that there is no good theoretical reason to prefer $|n'_*| << |n_*-1|$, and show that current observations are consistent with $|n'_* ln(k/k_*)| ~ |n_*-1|$ even for $|ln(k/k_*)| ~ 1$. Thus, there are regions of parameter space, which are both theoretically and observationally relevant, for which the traditional truncated Taylor series parameterization is inconsistent, and hence it can lead to incorrect parameter estimations. Motivated by this, we propose a simple extension of the traditional parameterization, which uses no extra parameters, but that, unlike the traditional approach, covers well motivated inflationary spectra with $|n'_*| ~ |n_*-1|$. Our parameterization therefore covers not only standard-slow-roll inflation models but also a much wider class of inflation models. We use this parameterization to perform a likelihood analysis for the cosmological parameters.

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